Every player to score a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup [Full List]

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Scoring a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup is one of football’s rarest achievements, with only a select group of players managing to score three or more goals in a single match on the sport’s biggest stage.

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Since the inaugural tournament in 1930, just 50 players have recorded 54 hat-tricks across World Cup history. Some of the game’s greatest names, including Pelé, Geoff Hurst, Gerd Müller, Gabriel Batistuta, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappé, feature on the prestigious list.

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The first World Cup hat-trick was scored by American forward Bert Patenaude against Paraguay in 1930. Nearly a century later, France star Kylian Mbappé became only the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final when he netted three times against Argentina in the 2022 showpiece.

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Batistuta remains the only player to score hat-tricks at two different World Cups, while Hungary’s László Kiss is the only substitute ever to achieve the feat.

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Below is the complete list of players who have scored hat-tricks at the FIFA World Cup:

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• Bert Patenaude (USA, 1930)
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• Guillermo Stábile (Argentina, 1930)
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• Pedro Cea (Uruguay, 1930)
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• Edmund Conen (Germany, 1934)
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• Angelo Schiavio (Italy, 1934)
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• Leônidas (Brazil, 1938)
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• György Sárosi (Hungary, 1938)
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• Ernst Willimowski (Poland, 1938)
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• Ademir (Brazil, 1950)
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• Óscar Míguez (Uruguay, 1950)
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• Sándor Kocsis (Hungary, 1954 – two hat-tricks)
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• Max Morlock (West Germany, 1954)
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• Josef Hügi (Switzerland, 1954)
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• Erich Probst (Austria, 1954)
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• Theodor Wagner (Austria, 1954)
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• Just Fontaine (France, 1958 – two hat-tricks)
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• Pelé (Brazil, 1958)
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• Flórián Albert (Hungary, 1962)
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• Valentin Ivanov (USSR, 1962)
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• Garrincha (Brazil, 1962)
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• Eusébio (Portugal, 1966)
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• Geoff Hurst (England, 1966)
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• Gerd Müller (West Germany, 1970 – two hat-tricks)
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• Carlos Alberto Torres (Brazil, 1970)
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• Andrzej Szarmach (Poland, 1974)
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• Grzegorz Lato (Poland, 1974)
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• Rob Rensenbrink (Netherlands, 1978)
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• Paolo Rossi (Italy, 1982)
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• László Kiss (Hungary, 1982)
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• Zbigniew Boniek (Poland, 1982)
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• Preben Elkjær (Denmark, 1986)
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• Gary Lineker (England, 1986)
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• Emilio Butragueño (Spain, 1986)
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• Tomáš Skuhravý (Czechoslovakia, 1990)
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• Salvatore Schillaci (Italy, 1990)
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• Oleg Salenko (Russia, 1994)
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• Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria, 1994)
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• Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina, 1994 and 1998 – two hat-tricks)
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• Christian Vieri (Italy, 1998)
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• Miroslav Klose (Germany, 2002)
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• Pauleta (Portugal, 2002)
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• Gonzalo Higuaín (Argentina, 2010)
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• Thomas Müller (Germany, 2014)
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• Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland, 2014)
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• Harry Kane (England, 2018)
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• Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, 2018)
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• Gonçalo Ramos (Portugal, 2022)
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• Kylian Mbappé (France, 2022)
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Among the record holders, Batistuta stands alone with hat-tricks in two separate World Cup tournaments, while Geoff Hurst and Mbappé remain the only players to score hat-tricks in a World Cup final.

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The achievement continues to be one of the most celebrated individual feats in football’s most prestigious competition.

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